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  1. Re:GAIM by shayborg · · Score: 1 · on New Worm Starts Munching MSN Users

    This worm has nothing to do with "videos/pictures stream[ing] through the chat box". The worm spreads by sending a URL to an executable. Victims run the executable (which is cleverly "disguised" by having the extension ".avi.exe") and get infected. Clearly this attack has nothing to do with GAIM or MSN Messenger, and contrary to what the summary says ("distributes itself to all your MSN contacts by sending a video"), the worm does not send any video at all. It displays some image when it first runs, but that's it.

    So this has nothing to do with software bloat or WMP vulnerabilities or MSN Messenger being integrated with the OS (which it's not, by the way — you're thinking of Windows Messenger, which is different and will be removed in Vista IIRC) or software being "married to the kernel" (I have no idea what you mean by this). In fact Windows does its best to mitigate this type of attack — when you download an executable from the Web, it gets an Internet zone identifier attached that says the file came from the Internet zone. Running the file shows a warning dialog with the application name and the publisher before it will let the file run. I don't know what else Windows can do here.

    This whole thing is just fulfilling the 1337 h4x0r fantasies of some kid who knows a little Visual Basic, and effectively posting his name on lights on Slashdot is completely counterproductive. If he'd done something remotely clever I could understand, but there are millions of these stupid worms floating around everywhere. There really is nothing to see here.

  2. Re:GAIM by shayborg · · Score: 1 · on New Worm Starts Munching MSN Users

    This worm has nothing to do with "videos/pictures stream[ing] through the chat box". The worm spreads by sending a URL to an executable. Victims run the executable (which is cleverly "disguised" by having the extension ".avi.exe") and get infected. Clearly this attack has nothing to do with GAIM or MSN Messenger, and contrary to what the summary says ("distributes itself to all your MSN contacts by sending a video"), the worm does not send any video at all. It displays some image when it first runs, but that's it.

    So this has nothing to do with software bloat or WMP vulnerabilities or MSN Messenger being integrated with the OS (which it's not, by the way — you're thinking of Windows Messenger, which is different and will be removed in Vista IIRC) or software being "married to the kernel" (I have no idea what you mean by this). In fact Windows does its best to mitigate this type of attack — when you download an executable from the Web, it gets an Internet zone identifier attached that says the file came from the Internet zone. Running the file shows a warning dialog with the application name and the publisher before it will let the file run. I don't know what else Windows can do here.

    This whole thing is just fulfilling the 1337 h4x0r fantasies of some kid who knows a little Visual Basic, and effectively posting his name on lights on Slashdot is completely counterproductive. If he'd done something remotely clever I could understand, but there are millions of these stupid worms floating around everywhere. There really is nothing to see here.

  3. Quick and Painless, for the most part by gforce811 · · Score: 0 · on A Database for the Office?

    1. SQL Server Express - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/sql/down load/ 2. MS Visual Web Developer Express - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/down load/default.aspx 3. SQL Server Management Studio Express - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/sql/down load/ 4. Use either C# or VB 5. ??? 6. Profit! It provides a simple and quick solution. It may be what you're looking for, or it might not.

  4. Quick and Painless, for the most part by gforce811 · · Score: 0 · on A Database for the Office?

    1. SQL Server Express - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/sql/down load/ 2. MS Visual Web Developer Express - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/down load/default.aspx 3. SQL Server Management Studio Express - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/sql/down load/ 4. Use either C# or VB 5. ??? 6. Profit! It provides a simple and quick solution. It may be what you're looking for, or it might not.

  5. Quick and Painless, for the most part by gforce811 · · Score: 0 · on A Database for the Office?

    1. SQL Server Express - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/sql/down load/ 2. MS Visual Web Developer Express - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/down load/default.aspx 3. SQL Server Management Studio Express - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/sql/down load/ 4. Use either C# or VB 5. ??? 6. Profit! It provides a simple and quick solution. It may be what you're looking for, or it might not.

  6. Re:You mean.. by bn557 · · Score: 4, Informative · on Replacement for Jewel Cases?

    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/howt o/articles/AutomatingEncoding.aspx

    That's microsofts page on how to batch windows media 9 encoding.

  7. Re:What about power supplies? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Microsoft to Turn to Driver Quality Ratings System

    Actually its not too difficult to tell the difference between a hardware and software fault if you have a minidump or kernel dump written to the hard drive. Just use kd.exe which comes with the Microsoft debugging package. If you have kernel symbols (.pdb) for the driver you are trying to debug it makes it a lot easier. Typically, hardware faults will have memory corruption errors (single-bit, etc.) Software errors might have memory issues too, but most a whole page of memory in the wrong place rather due to an invalid pointer rather than a single-bit error.

    You can get the MS kernel debugging tools here: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/d efault.mspx

    The tools that Microsoft uses internally to process your crash reports in OCA is going to be a little more sophisticated that the public tools since it contains licenesed 3rd party code and symbols.

  8. OCA gets over 400,000 crash reports per day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on Microsoft to Turn to Driver Quality Ratings System

    It is estimated that Microsoft receives over 400,000 crash dumps in OCA daily across XP, Server 2003, and Vista. Thats 400,000 blue screens people! And all those minidumps and sysdata.xml files are stored in a SQL database. Crazy! It turns out that the vast majority of the crashes are due to Chinese malware and known issues that already have fixes. Guess what, people don't update their shit. The rest are genuine bugs either in Microsoft code or 3rd party driver code.

    OEM's like Dell and HP have access to this raw OCA data through contracts with Microsoft and they have the power to determine which hardware vendors are the most reliable based on install base and crash rate. Want to know whether ATI or nVidia display hardware is more reliable for a business desktop? Ask a Dell TAM. Or better yet, just look and see what video cards Dell puts in their most popular high-end systems. When folks crash, they either call up Dell support and Dell loses money, or they call up Microsoft support and Microsoft loses money. Dell and Microsoft want to prevent those calls! If they can reduce support calls due to Video crashes on systems by switching from nVidia to ATI or vice versa, millions of dollars can be saved! The customer being happier is a nice side benifit :)

    Speaking of Display hardware, have you guys heard of CRASH? Graphcis drivers are notorious for crashing and account for about one in five of all crashes reported to OCA! MS developed a neat multi-threading stress tool to compare the reliablity of various video cards. The whitepaper has been available since Apr 30, 2004 at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/DevTools/tools/CRASH .mspx and you can request a link to download the tool by emailing grphstab@microsoft.com (Graphics Stability alias)

  9. Re:Is this the end of CD DRM drivers? by Mancat · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Microsoft to Turn to Driver Quality Ratings System

    No. The feedback you're providing to Microsoft is not on a whim. They're not basing driver quality ratings on how many angry E-mails they've received; they're basing them on how many automated Windows Error Reporting messages they receive, which drivers are the most common offenders, and whether or not these drivers are all experiencing similar failures.

    Ever used Microsoft's "Crash Analysis" tool? These Crash Analysis reports are what they're using to guage driver quality. If you've never used the tool, take a look. It's very handy for figuring out exactly why you're getting a BSOD when you insert your El-Cheapo Brand-Y USB Modem. http://oca.microsoft.com/

  10. Re:Why should a bad driver crash an OS? by wik · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft to Turn to Driver Quality Ratings System

    Microsoft is doing this. Or at least Microsoft Research is. Take a look at the Singularity project. However, it's a research prototype, so don't expect this in a product anytime soon.

  11. Re:Free SDKs and compilers @ microsoft.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Apple Losing Touch With the OS Community?

    Geez, this must be the "misinformation" thread. Your exact point is answered (correctly) in the FAQ, just one click away from the main Visual Studio 2005 Express page:

    4. Can I use Express Editions for commercial use?
      Yes, there are no licensing restrictions for applications built using the Express Editions.

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/ faq/

  12. Re:Free SDKs and compilers @ microsoft.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Apple Losing Touch With the OS Community?
    You can't write commercial software with VS Express whereas you can with XCode. So "free for playing around" isn't quite the same as free.


    Nothing prevents you from selling commercial software written with the Express editions, see question 4.
  13. Re:And where is the book by hughk · · Score: 1 · on Linux Annoyances For Geeks

    The guys who wrote the book han an innovative agreement that once out of print, they could publish it online for free. You will find the xomplete 3.5MB pdf here. You will also, surprise, surprise, find a link from the site of a well known computer company.

  14. Re:My Linux Annoyances as a Hardended Windows user by futuresheep · · Score: 1 · on Linux Annoyances For Geeks
    1. No fecking media support! I get XMMS inform me on first attempt at playing an MP3 that it won't because of licensing conflict. Wtf? Codecs for avi's and DVDs were a simular story; all had to be downloaded via yum (bloody excellent tool!). Seriously; not good, but fixed in the end.

    MP3 is not a completely free format, RedHat just chooses to stick with free software, same goes for DVD playback. Windows isn't much different, with no support for Divx, Xvid, CSS's DVD's, or Ogg/Theora files without finding and downloading codecs.

    2. Why the hell do I have to install a new kernel? Why? I've never had to on Windows - why is Linux different? Is it so buggy? I installed with a factory version something ending 054. Now I have something ending 122 I believe. I did it ok, but that's not the point I'm making; were there really 68 cock-ups so great in the kernel build from release-time until that now they had to re-release 68 times? I'm guessing probablly not, but still.

    You've most likely installed patches for your Windows kernel, you just didn't realize it was a kernel patch when you did it.

    3. Point 2 also breaks my nvidia drivers. I don't want to re-compile new drivers everytime there's a new 'patch'. For the love of god, why?!

    This I wholeheartedly agree with, I hate this, and wish that there was some mechanism to deal with this. Some distros that have precompiled binaries for Nvidia drivers will do it with thier kernel update, but RedHat doesn't, since the NVidia driver isn't completely free.

    4. X-Windows. What a mess. Why do I have to tell it my x & y refresh rates for my monitor? Windows just 'knows'. Many more things here I feel that X-Windows should just 'know' - the number of buttons on my USB mouse for-instance. If Windows can do it, there's no reason why Linux can't. Also, X-Windows 'feels' slower than Windows. I'm sure there's good reasons for this, but I don't care; Windows is snappier.

    Windows isn't very good at picking your optimal refresh rate though. It simply gives you a nice and safe 60Hz, and leaves it at that. The slowness you feel is more likely an issue with Gnome over X-Windows. Try a KDE based distro, I think you'll agree.

    5. Lack of decent file-browser. The best I've come across is Nautilus in a mode that resembles Windows Explorer. It'll do for now, but as far as I'm aware, offers no context-sensitive menus for applications (like the Winamp "Play in Winamp" right-click menu on folders.

    Try a KDE based distro. Konqueror is the cats meow of file browsers. I find myself missing is uber functionality when I'm in Windows. It really does kick ass for the poweruser.

    Actually, I think that's largely it. In all, Linux has, and is continuing to be great fun to play with. So many cool tools - yum being one of them. I'll stick to Linux @ home; it can only get better, but I'd be interested to know what people think of the above points - any suggestions maybe? I want this to work after all...

    I would highly recommend trying the lasest beta from Mepis. I think you'll be much happier. Go here: Link, hit one of the mirrors, go to the 'testing' directory, and grab SimplyMEPIS_6.0-beta5_i386.iso. It's a live CD with a nice installer that you can run from there.

  15. Re:Get things straight... by AstroDrabb · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Apple Losing Touch With the OS Community?
    You still have to pay Microsoft to write programs for windows unless it's a batch file.

    What? 5 seconds of research would have kept you from looking ignorant. You can download all the needed SDK's from MS without cost. You can even get the free (as in cost, not Freedom) versions of Visual Studio 2005 along with the free (cost) version of Sql Express.

    The Visual Studio Express editions allow you to do development with C#, J#, C++ and unfortunately VB.Net.

    I am not an MS fanboy, however if you are going to take a jab at MS, at least do it for a valid reason.
  16. Free VC++ 2005 by Frankie70 · · Score: 1 · on Apple Losing Touch With the OS Community?


    You still have to pay Microsoft to write programs for windows unless it's a batch file.


    Here

    You can stop talking rubbish now.

  17. Re:One thing I find commical.. by atarione · · Score: 1 · on Red Hat Not Seeing Microsoft, Ubuntu as Threats

    umm... is this not to keep the cluster software naming line line w/ the other server products Server 2003 R2 currently...... http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default .mspx

  18. Re:It's about time... by quux4 · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Calls for Truce With GPL and Linux?
    2 things:

    1: MS doesn't provide it, but if you want to read/write ext2/3 from any NT-based Windows, http://fs-driver.org/

    2: Yes, MS does provide support for mounting NFS. It's called Services for Unix, check it out sometime..

  19. Re:The classic paradox. by RevDobbs · · Score: 1 · on Basic Internal Instant Messaging Solution?

    I've got your MS solution right here: Using Windows Chat in Windows XP. May work for Win2k3, YMMV.

    You're welcome.

    :-)

  20. Re:Article - 3 ways to avoid ads.... :) by iamcf13 · · Score: 1 · on Ways to Improve In-Game Advertising

    The reason these stories on Slashdot are useless is because all of the slashbots here will be screaming "I don't want ads!". Well, tough shit. Advertising is part of our world and culture and they are coming to video games whether you want them to or not.

    There are 3 ways to avoid advertising. Here they are:

    1) Die. Seriously. Then your problems with advertising will be all over for good. The drawback is that it is permanent [depending on your beliefs in an afterlife.... :) ].

    2) Live 'off the grid' on public/private land with NONE of the technological amenities of modern civilization other than (maybe) a P.O. box or other suitable 'mail drop' (but then the ad men will probably get ahold of it and still send you junk mail! :P). I like how the USPS's definiton of '1st Class Mail' only covers bills/invoices/purchase orders/related whatnot, financial statements/legal papers/government correspondence, checks and equivalents, and handwritten personal correspondence. To them, everything else that is not a periodical or parcel of some kind is considered bulk mail and is fair game for recycling/disposal. :)

    3) Use the technologies at hand to minimize/eliminate your exposure to advertising. Some examples:

    3a) Digital Video Recorders with 'adskip' (if you can still buy 'em or build 'em). If push comes to shove, hang on to your VCRs and use them instead.

    3b) DVD Players that ignore Prohibited User Operation(s) (and region codeds as well!). Yay, no more FBI warnings/trailers/long animated menus before the movie! :) (the animated menu on Disney's Lion King DVD is notoriously long! :P) If you live in the USA and are thinking 'FVCK THE DMCA(.pdf)!!!!' there is software out there that will allow you to 'remaster' a commercial DVD to remove 'all' unwanted content. Non-USA world citizens don't have this worry (lucky them!)

    3c) Ad blocking hosts file for your webbrowser such as this one. Use a 'surfer friendly' web browser like Off By One that ignores Flash and popup windows because it doesn't understand the SCRIPT and OBJECT HTML tags I am using it now to write this post instead of IE 5 that came with Windows 2000. Slashdot looks like crap in IE 5 so I gave up on it and am now using Off By One to surf Slashdot--much nicer! If you have to/want to use a 3rd party popup blocker, I heartily recommend NoAds

    On Windows and tired of email spam? Filter it out with my absolutely free gift back to the Internet community at large who can use it. Since I started using it, my email spam has dropped to essentially zero. Attention Mods. before you mod this post down as spam/karmawhoring, consider 'going after' Roland Piquepaille first who always seems to get a story posted here no matter how trivial it is sometimes...or the multpage 'adfest' stories mentioned here from Tom's Hardware.

    P.S. Sorry, I have no solution to public restroom advertising other than to keep your eyes closed while you do your business, use a 100% ad-free bathroom, or risk being arrested for defecating/urinating in public....

    "The writing is on the wall" Indeed. Legal, for-profit commercial graffiti.... :P

  21. Re:MS not supporting what they say they do! by Keeper · · Score: 1 · on June Windows Update To Be Biggest in a Year

    "Paid incident support is now available through July 11, 2006. Extended hotfix support for Windows 98 and Windows 98 Second Edition ended on June 30, 2003. Extended hotfix support for Windows Millennium Edition ended on December 31, 2003. Online self-help support will continue to be available until at least July 10, 2007. For more information about the type and length of support provided, review the Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Millennium Edition Support Extended Announcement Web site. Critical security updates will be provided on the Windows Update site through July 11, 2006. Microsoft will not publicly release non-critical security hotfixes for Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, or Windows Millennium Edition. However, customers may request a non-critical security hotfix through On-Demand Security Hotfix support. This support is offered for these products through July 11, 2006. When a request is received, Microsoft will investigate the issue and try to provide an appropriate response to the customer."

    http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=6519

    Get your facts straight.

  22. Why doesn't the author get the facts? by peterfa · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Microsoft Calls for Truce With GPL and Linux?
    Why doesn't the author get the facts? I have some damn proof right here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/facts/defau lt.mspx Look at all these lies.. and he has the balls to say Microsoft is calling truce?

    Yeah, Microsoft is calling a truce... I soooo fucking believe that.

  23. Re:open the window by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Microsoft Calls for Truce With GPL and Linux?
    >If M$ wants to appease the OSS group, they need to open the windows API spec.


    Haven't they already done that? . Maybe I'm splitting hairs, but the public API is (by definition) documented, though there are surely internal APIs that are undocumented. Many of the protocols and formats are undocumented (the XLS and DOC formats, the wire protocol for CIFS, etc.) but the core Win32 API is documented and has been for several years now.

  24. Re:Microsoft just seems to be kind of flailing. by cakoose · · Score: 1 · on Web 2.0, Meet .Net 3.0
    IF software is well designed, and has followed a proper design process then its complexity is not a factor in how its APIs respond - because those APIs have been determined to provide a given response for a given input even before any coding was ever done in the first place. Any deviation from this is a flaw in the software and should be corrected before it is released.

    You might want to read "The Old New Thing" blog; it recounts many instances where developers relied on more than the APIs stated contract (mostly Win32 stuff, but there are .Net examples in there too). And Microsoft does go to great lengths to avoid breaking popular software, but they can't control the development process employed by 3rd-party developers.

    Have you taken a look at the list of breaking changes? They're mostly design and bug fixes. They could have created new functions (with the suffix "_New", or something) but I prefer fixing the functions in-place. Not allowing such changes is just going to cause a build-up of cruft. If you just want your older app to continue working, you can still use an older version of .Net, since multiple versions can be installed side-by-side on the same machine.

    It's not that Microsoft is particularly incompetent. These problems come up a lot. The C and C++ standards, the Java API, the Linux kernel, Apache module API, etc. You're just not going to get it right on the first try. The reason Photoshop can do backwards compatibility is because the data it deals with is much more restricted than program code. It's easy for Photoshop to automatically upgrade old file formats. It's harder to do the same thing for source code (though Micrsoft has released migration tools that help).

  25. Embrace and Extend by mugnyte · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Calls for Truce With GPL and Linux?

    MS has taken this tactic for years. The the model of GPL'd source is not really MS's cup of tea. Rather, they will taken any *input* other developers would like to give to their code. For example, we use the MS Enterprise Libs for .NET here for a few things. It ships with code, which we can extend and use. However, you'll not see us distribute our modified source with anything we like, even if we merely wrap and give props to the original authors. And, you won't find Ent Lib sources anywhere else except MS. They'll take input, but be the final decision on what is in that product. This is akin to GPL, but it differs in that 2nd tier dev cannot really ship their own source based on tier 1 - which stops the innovation cycle right there. Here's EULA of that product

      The intellectual property MS builds, like many software companies, is in their employees, not their code. The interesting problems they solve in code are usually boiled down to applying academically studied methods to present-day technology issues. Like any company, combining two or more current technologies in interesting ways is the innovation (ie maps+satellite+weather+traffic= cooler map program). Today, many schools don't solely use Windows (many use a *nix variant) to study info processing, so MS must often borrow/mimic from other platforms. You can bet they certainly benefit from GPL, even if it means just having a reference for a solution's implementation.

      I've always believed intellectual capital is in the employees and their ability to *continuously* output creative solutions. Similar to musicians, there's a bit of money to be made from the output, perhaps a lot, but software and music are on an honor system digitally. You have to keep adapting, improving and "have another hit" to ensure your company is still the market maker.

  26. Re:Why isn't anything compiled natively anymore? by NuclearRampage · · Score: 1 · on The End of Native Code?

    http://research.microsoft.com/os/singularity/ They shed some light on a kernel in c#, although it is not 100% c#.

  27. No... by Aqua_boy17 · · Score: 1 · on June Windows Update To Be Biggest in a Year

    They just haven't been released yet. Keep checking here: http://www.support.microsoft.com/gp/securityitpro

  28. Re:Updates? What updates? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on June Windows Update To Be Biggest in a Year

    A further example. Go to microsoft's security site, and there is no mention of the june updates. If you click on "this month's updates", you get the May updates, not the June ones (as of 10:33 am eastern time).

    Bunch of idiots. Can't they update their web pages?

  29. Re:Updates? What updates? by ST47 · · Score: 0 · on June Windows Update To Be Biggest in a Year

    do you mean this one: Security Update for Windows XP (KB901190) Typical download size: 148 KB , less than 1 minute A security issue has been identified that could allow an attacker to remotely compromise your Windows-based system and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. Details... Security Update for Windows XP (KB901190) Date last published: 2/14/2006 Typical download size: 148 KB A security issue has been identified that could allow an attacker to remotely compromise your Windows-based system and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. System Requirements Recommended CPU: Not specified. Recommended memory: Not specified. Recommended hard disk space: Not specified. How to Uninstall This software update can be removed via Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel. Get help and support http://support.microsoft.com/ More information http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=49512 Print | Close (that link is really big, so ill just put the subheading) Vulnerability in the Korean Input Method Editor Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (901190) anyone use the Korean Input Method Editor? :P

  30. Re:Updates? What updates? by ST47 · · Score: 0 · on June Windows Update To Be Biggest in a Year

    do you mean this one: Security Update for Windows XP (KB901190) Typical download size: 148 KB , less than 1 minute A security issue has been identified that could allow an attacker to remotely compromise your Windows-based system and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. Details... Security Update for Windows XP (KB901190) Date last published: 2/14/2006 Typical download size: 148 KB A security issue has been identified that could allow an attacker to remotely compromise your Windows-based system and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. System Requirements Recommended CPU: Not specified. Recommended memory: Not specified. Recommended hard disk space: Not specified. How to Uninstall This software update can be removed via Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel. Get help and support http://support.microsoft.com/ More information http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=49512 Print | Close (that link is really big, so ill just put the subheading) Vulnerability in the Korean Input Method Editor Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (901190) anyone use the Korean Input Method Editor? :P

  31. Re:ActiveX by Frankie70 · · Score: 1 · on June Windows Update To Be Biggest in a Year


    The bigger problem here is that this update enforces the ActiveX patch that was released a while back, y'know the one that causes inline ActiveX controls to not fire up, but to display that 'Click Here to Active This Control' message instead.

    Not a major problem out on the Internet, but many Corporates have internal web apps where this patch is going to screw things up royally.


    The fix is trivial

    Takes a minute to implement.

  32. Re:ActiveX by Pirogoeth · · Score: 2, Informative · on June Windows Update To Be Biggest in a Year

    Here's the page to which you probably were referring.

    Microsoft has a tutorial on their MSDN site which discusses this as well.

  33. Re:Simplest Windows security measure by Thundersnatch · · Score: 1 · on A Windows Alternative to Linux Security Modules?

    Mandatory code signing has been built-in to Windows since 2001 (with the release of XP).

    I use this for some of my locked-down client machines, and it works pretty much as advertised. However, maintaining the list of allowed executables is a pain. Most 3rd-party windows developers neglect to sign their code, so you have to do a lot of manual entry of hashes. There are 3rd party management tools and scripting which can be used to overcome these problems.

  34. Re:What is left to blog about at Microsoft anyway? by shyster · · Score: 1 · on Upstart Bloggers at Microsoft Moving On

    The question is -- what is left to blog about at Microsoft at the moment anyway?

    Oh, I don't know...maybe from their developer division, in no particular order:

    Yeah...that's about all the interesting stuff I can think of coming out of the developer division in the near to medium term. Note that I didn't state this stuff was any good (I haven't had the chance to toy with most of it yet), but I do think it's interesting and worth talking about.

    Of course, their other divisions are no slouches either, so we also have (again, in no particular order):

  35. Re:What is left to blog about at Microsoft anyway? by shyster · · Score: 1 · on Upstart Bloggers at Microsoft Moving On

    The question is -- what is left to blog about at Microsoft at the moment anyway?

    Oh, I don't know...maybe from their developer division, in no particular order:

    Yeah...that's about all the interesting stuff I can think of coming out of the developer division in the near to medium term. Note that I didn't state this stuff was any good (I haven't had the chance to toy with most of it yet), but I do think it's interesting and worth talking about.

    Of course, their other divisions are no slouches either, so we also have (again, in no particular order):

  36. Re:What is left to blog about at Microsoft anyway? by shyster · · Score: 1 · on Upstart Bloggers at Microsoft Moving On

    The question is -- what is left to blog about at Microsoft at the moment anyway?

    Oh, I don't know...maybe from their developer division, in no particular order:

    Yeah...that's about all the interesting stuff I can think of coming out of the developer division in the near to medium term. Note that I didn't state this stuff was any good (I haven't had the chance to toy with most of it yet), but I do think it's interesting and worth talking about.

    Of course, their other divisions are no slouches either, so we also have (again, in no particular order):

  37. Re:What is left to blog about at Microsoft anyway? by shyster · · Score: 1 · on Upstart Bloggers at Microsoft Moving On

    The question is -- what is left to blog about at Microsoft at the moment anyway?

    Oh, I don't know...maybe from their developer division, in no particular order:

    Yeah...that's about all the interesting stuff I can think of coming out of the developer division in the near to medium term. Note that I didn't state this stuff was any good (I haven't had the chance to toy with most of it yet), but I do think it's interesting and worth talking about.

    Of course, their other divisions are no slouches either, so we also have (again, in no particular order):

  38. Re:What is left to blog about at Microsoft anyway? by shyster · · Score: 1 · on Upstart Bloggers at Microsoft Moving On

    The question is -- what is left to blog about at Microsoft at the moment anyway?

    Oh, I don't know...maybe from their developer division, in no particular order:

    Yeah...that's about all the interesting stuff I can think of coming out of the developer division in the near to medium term. Note that I didn't state this stuff was any good (I haven't had the chance to toy with most of it yet), but I do think it's interesting and worth talking about.

    Of course, their other divisions are no slouches either, so we also have (again, in no particular order):

  39. Re:What is left to blog about at Microsoft anyway? by shyster · · Score: 1 · on Upstart Bloggers at Microsoft Moving On

    The question is -- what is left to blog about at Microsoft at the moment anyway?

    Oh, I don't know...maybe from their developer division, in no particular order:

    Yeah...that's about all the interesting stuff I can think of coming out of the developer division in the near to medium term. Note that I didn't state this stuff was any good (I haven't had the chance to toy with most of it yet), but I do think it's interesting and worth talking about.

    Of course, their other divisions are no slouches either, so we also have (again, in no particular order):

  40. Re:What is left to blog about at Microsoft anyway? by shyster · · Score: 1 · on Upstart Bloggers at Microsoft Moving On

    The question is -- what is left to blog about at Microsoft at the moment anyway?

    Oh, I don't know...maybe from their developer division, in no particular order:

    Yeah...that's about all the interesting stuff I can think of coming out of the developer division in the near to medium term. Note that I didn't state this stuff was any good (I haven't had the chance to toy with most of it yet), but I do think it's interesting and worth talking about.

    Of course, their other divisions are no slouches either, so we also have (again, in no particular order):

  41. Re:What is left to blog about at Microsoft anyway? by shyster · · Score: 1 · on Upstart Bloggers at Microsoft Moving On

    The question is -- what is left to blog about at Microsoft at the moment anyway?

    Oh, I don't know...maybe from their developer division, in no particular order:

    Yeah...that's about all the interesting stuff I can think of coming out of the developer division in the near to medium term. Note that I didn't state this stuff was any good (I haven't had the chance to toy with most of it yet), but I do think it's interesting and worth talking about.

    Of course, their other divisions are no slouches either, so we also have (again, in no particular order):

  42. Re:What is left to blog about at Microsoft anyway? by shyster · · Score: 1 · on Upstart Bloggers at Microsoft Moving On

    The question is -- what is left to blog about at Microsoft at the moment anyway?

    Oh, I don't know...maybe from their developer division, in no particular order:

    Yeah...that's about all the interesting stuff I can think of coming out of the developer division in the near to medium term. Note that I didn't state this stuff was any good (I haven't had the chance to toy with most of it yet), but I do think it's interesting and worth talking about.

    Of course, their other divisions are no slouches either, so we also have (again, in no particular order):

  43. Re:What is left to blog about at Microsoft anyway? by shyster · · Score: 1 · on Upstart Bloggers at Microsoft Moving On

    The question is -- what is left to blog about at Microsoft at the moment anyway?

    Oh, I don't know...maybe from their developer division, in no particular order:

    Yeah...that's about all the interesting stuff I can think of coming out of the developer division in the near to medium term. Note that I didn't state this stuff was any good (I haven't had the chance to toy with most of it yet), but I do think it's interesting and worth talking about.

    Of course, their other divisions are no slouches either, so we also have (again, in no particular order):

  44. Re:What is left to blog about at Microsoft anyway? by shyster · · Score: 1 · on Upstart Bloggers at Microsoft Moving On

    The question is -- what is left to blog about at Microsoft at the moment anyway?

    Oh, I don't know...maybe from their developer division, in no particular order:

    Yeah...that's about all the interesting stuff I can think of coming out of the developer division in the near to medium term. Note that I didn't state this stuff was any good (I haven't had the chance to toy with most of it yet), but I do think it's interesting and worth talking about.

    Of course, their other divisions are no slouches either, so we also have (again, in no particular order):

  45. Re:What is left to blog about at Microsoft anyway? by shyster · · Score: 1 · on Upstart Bloggers at Microsoft Moving On

    The question is -- what is left to blog about at Microsoft at the moment anyway?

    Oh, I don't know...maybe from their developer division, in no particular order:

    Yeah...that's about all the interesting stuff I can think of coming out of the developer division in the near to medium term. Note that I didn't state this stuff was any good (I haven't had the chance to toy with most of it yet), but I do think it's interesting and worth talking about.

    Of course, their other divisions are no slouches either, so we also have (again, in no particular order):

  46. Re:What is left to blog about at Microsoft anyway? by shyster · · Score: 1 · on Upstart Bloggers at Microsoft Moving On

    The question is -- what is left to blog about at Microsoft at the moment anyway?

    Oh, I don't know...maybe from their developer division, in no particular order:

    Yeah...that's about all the interesting stuff I can think of coming out of the developer division in the near to medium term. Note that I didn't state this stuff was any good (I haven't had the chance to toy with most of it yet), but I do think it's interesting and worth talking about.

    Of course, their other divisions are no slouches either, so we also have (again, in no particular order):

  47. Re:What is left to blog about at Microsoft anyway? by shyster · · Score: 1 · on Upstart Bloggers at Microsoft Moving On

    The question is -- what is left to blog about at Microsoft at the moment anyway?

    Oh, I don't know...maybe from their developer division, in no particular order:

    Yeah...that's about all the interesting stuff I can think of coming out of the developer division in the near to medium term. Note that I didn't state this stuff was any good (I haven't had the chance to toy with most of it yet), but I do think it's interesting and worth talking about.

    Of course, their other divisions are no slouches either, so we also have (again, in no particular order):

  48. Re:What is left to blog about at Microsoft anyway? by shyster · · Score: 1 · on Upstart Bloggers at Microsoft Moving On

    The question is -- what is left to blog about at Microsoft at the moment anyway?

    Oh, I don't know...maybe from their developer division, in no particular order:

    Yeah...that's about all the interesting stuff I can think of coming out of the developer division in the near to medium term. Note that I didn't state this stuff was any good (I haven't had the chance to toy with most of it yet), but I do think it's interesting and worth talking about.

    Of course, their other divisions are no slouches either, so we also have (again, in no particular order):

  49. Re:What is left to blog about at Microsoft anyway? by shyster · · Score: 1 · on Upstart Bloggers at Microsoft Moving On

    The question is -- what is left to blog about at Microsoft at the moment anyway?

    Oh, I don't know...maybe from their developer division, in no particular order:

    Yeah...that's about all the interesting stuff I can think of coming out of the developer division in the near to medium term. Note that I didn't state this stuff was any good (I haven't had the chance to toy with most of it yet), but I do think it's interesting and worth talking about.

    Of course, their other divisions are no slouches either, so we also have (again, in no particular order):

  50. Re:What is left to blog about at Microsoft anyway? by shyster · · Score: 1 · on Upstart Bloggers at Microsoft Moving On

    The question is -- what is left to blog about at Microsoft at the moment anyway?

    Oh, I don't know...maybe from their developer division, in no particular order:

    Yeah...that's about all the interesting stuff I can think of coming out of the developer division in the near to medium term. Note that I didn't state this stuff was any good (I haven't had the chance to toy with most of it yet), but I do think it's interesting and worth talking about.

    Of course, their other divisions are no slouches either, so we also have (again, in no particular order):